SSD Endurance Test: 3.58PB on 256GB Drive & What It Means
When a 256GB Samsung PM981 SSD survived 3.58 petabytes of writes—23 times its rated TBW—it challenged everything we thought about NAND endurance. We break down what this extreme case teaches us about real-world SSD reliability, monitoring, and choosing drives for heavy workloads in 2026.
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Feb 26, 2026